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RHYMING FOR SONGWRITERS … How to surprise your audience
by Brian Oliver An extract from his new book, “Surprising Rhyming for Songwriters and Poets”, an alternative rhyming dictionary designed to help writers create unique rhymes and avoid tired old...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Keep your songwriting process simple, says Taylor Swift
“Songwriting is still the same uncomplicated process it was when I was 12 years old writing songs in my room,” said Taylor Swift in a recent interview with Harper’s BAZAAR magazine. She said: “There...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Paul McCartney on how he and John Lennon wrote songs before...
In a recent live Q&A session at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Paul McCartney told Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker that, in the early days of The Beatles, he and John Lennon had...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Max Martin reveals the secret behind his successful...
“I don’t think Max Martin is human,” says record label boss and reality TV judge Simon Cowell. “Nobody human can do everything he’s done over the years. He has helped to make and define a sound and...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ed Sheeran on the importance of being ambitious and...
Photo: Eva Rinaldi “If you don’t wanna be bigger than Adele, you’re in the wrong industry … I don’t want to be the male Adele. I want to be Adele.” –Ed Sheeran # # # # “SURPRISING RHYMING” – The...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Constantly set yourself new creative challenges to keep...
From Paul Weller’s emergence as a songwriting force with the power punk of The Jam in the 1970s to the soul sounds of The Style Council in the 1980s—followed by many diverse solo albums since—he has...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Keep your songs simple to help people connect to them...
Photo: Andreas Lawen, Fotandi As experienced songwriters know, you only have a limited amount of time in which to grab a listener’s attention and create a lasting impression on them. If your song...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Try David Bowie’s ‘cut-up’ method of writing lyrics
When David Bowie released his twenty-fourth studio album, The Next Day, in 2013, a journalist asked him to explain his thinking behind the new songs, each of which featured unusual, cryptic lyrics and...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: ABBA’s Benny Andersson on writing songs ‘by committee’…
“So many songs are now written by committee … Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like”, which won Song of the Year at this year’s Grammys, was credited to eight writers. “I don’t understand how that works...
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ACHIEVING SONGWRITING SUCCESS: It’s about hard work not just talent, says...
John Legend believes gaining success as a songwriter is as much about working hard as it is talent. “It sounds obvious, but there’s this mistaken belief that everything is about talent, but talent has...
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